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From: Sandy Miller <>
Subject: [OKCADDO ] Leon L. Askren
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:09:36 -0800

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Surname: Askren, Garthwaite
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Leon L. Askren
January 23, 1987

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, 27-Jan-1987 in the Steverson
Funeral Home Chapel in Anadarko for Leon L. Askren, 78, of Anadarko who
died 23-Jan-1987 at his home. Officiating at the services was the Rev.
James Denny of the Anadarko Christian Center. Burial was in Anadarko's
Memory Lane Cemetery under the direction of the Steverson Funeral Home
of Anadarko.

Askren was born 29-Sep-1908 in Atchison, Kansas. He married the former
Evelyn Keith Garthwaite 23-Jun-1946 in Baltimore, Md. She preceded him
in death on 03-Sep-1986. He attended high school in Atchison, Kansas; attended
Park College in Parksville, Mo.; then Washburn University and School of
Law in Topeka, Kansas where he received a Bachelor of Law degree in June
1932. The university later bestowed upon him a Juris Doctor degree. After
passing his bar examination he entered general practice at Greensburg,
Kansas where he served as city attorney, county attorney and auditor. He
served for several years as the local attorney for the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad Company and as district judge pro-tem through election.
He was U.S. Conciliation Commissioner, attorney for the receiver of defunct
national banks and was special attorney for the Federal Reserve Bank of
Kansas City, Kansas. After moving back to Atchison in January of 1940 he
served as attorney for the Central Body of the Atchison trades and Labor
Union Council and was a charter member of the Atchison Junior Chamber of
Commerce. He stayed in Atchison until he entered the U.S. Army in December
of 1942. Askren began his federal service after he was discharged from
the U.S. Army when he was employed as an attorney advisor with the Board
of Veterans of the Administration Central Office in Washington, D.C., a
position he held until he was transferred to the Department of the Interior's
Bureau of Indian Affairs in February 1957. His first BIA job was assistant
chief of the branch of Realty's Tenure and Management section in the Washington,
D.C. office. He transferred to Anadarko as assistant chief area realty
officer 08-May-1958 and was promoted to chief realty officer in December
of 1968. He retired from that position 18-Jan-1973.

Preceding him in death was his wife, and his parents. Survivors include
three sons, John Christian Askren of Anadarko; M. Leon Askren and Paul
Laird Askren, both of Tucson, Ariz., and eight grandchildren.

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